Fender-attaching means



c. w. MOTTS AND H. H. uswrs. FENDER ATTACHING MEANS.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2. 1919. 1,3343312.

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" BY OR/VE y Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES W. MO'ITS AND HARVEY H. LEWIS, OF ATCI-IISON, KANSAS, ASSIGNORST HENRY WEIS MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF ATCHISON, KANSAS, A CORPORA- TIONOF KANSAS.

FENDER-ATTACHING MEANS.

1 '0 all whom it may concern Be it known that we, CHARLES W. Moms andHARVEY H. Lewis, citizens of the United States, residing at Atchison, inthe county of Atchison and State of Kansas, have in vented certain newand useful Improvements in Fender-Attaching Means; and we do declare thefollowing to be a full,

cl :11, and exact description of the invention, such as will enableothers skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use thesame, reference being had to the'accoinpz'inying drawings, and to theletters and figures of reference marked thereon, which form a part ofthis specification.

This invention relates to fender-attaching clamps for motor drivenvehicles such as tractors and the like.

One of the objects of the invention is to provide means for. attachingfenders to tractors without the necessity of boring holes in any part ofthe tractor. It is also the purpose of the invention to provide meansfor supporting the rear ends of the fenders without removing the boltsof the differential housing or otherwise disarranging the mechanism ofthe machine.

lVe have shown the device as applied to what is known to the trade as a1918 Fordson tractor built by the Ford Manufacturing Company ofDearborn, Michigan, as the device is particularly applicable for thistype of machine on account of the fact that the machine, is now beingsold without fenders and, on account of the particular construction ofthe Fordson tractor wheels, fenders become necessary 'to prevent theshoes on the wheel from throwing mud or any other substance against theoccupant of the tractor.

The invention also contemplates a provision of means for convenientlyand ex peditiously attaching to and removing a tender from the tractoror the like as well as to provide means for supporting a canopy or topin a convenient manner.

In the drawings,

Figure I is a perspective view of a tractor equipped with our 'nvention.

Fig. II is a fragmentary perspective view of a dash plate showing oneform of bracket attached.

Fig. III is a similar view of a modified form of bracket.

Fig. IV is a top plan view of a bracket Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 2, 1919.

Patented Mar. 23, 1920.

Seria1 No. 301,142.

attached to a fragment of a dash plate and to a fragment of a fender,and

Fig. V is a view of a bracket for securing a brace to the differentialhousing and to the fender.

Referring now als of reference:

1 designates a tractor provided with a front or dash plate 2 and adifferential housing 3, the dash plate is shown as con structed with aweb l and a peripherial to the drawings by numerflange 5 to which thebracket may be secured. The form of bracket shown in Fig.

II consists of a plate 6 provided with a lateral right angular extension7 with a substantially horizontal fender-engaging lip 8 having anopening 9 to receive a bolt whereby the bracket may be secured to thetop 10 of the fender 11. 'The fender 11 is adapted to rest upon the axlehousing and be secured thereto by a collar 12. The inner end of thebracket (3 is provided with a jaw 13 having a groove l l to receive oneedge of the flange 5, the jaw having wel engaging fingers 15 and 1Gspaced apart to provide a slot or opening 17 through which a contrdllingrod 18 may pass to control mechanism used in connection with the enine.

There is a complementary jaw or plate 19 on the opposite side of theweb, the complementary jaw having a groove 20 to receive the oppositeedge of the flange 5, the two jaws being clamped together by fasteningdevices 21. Therefore, when the bracket is secured in place, it willrigidly attach the front end of the fender to the dash iron withoutmarring the iron. The bracket shown in Fig. III is substantially thesame as that shown in Fig. II except that no slot 17 is provided, thisbeing unnecessary since the bracket 6 is generally used on the righthand side of the machine and the bracket 6', shown in Fig. III, is onthe left hand side of the machine where no rods are used. In all otherrespects, the two brackets are alike and each is provided with avertically disposed standard socket 22 to receive the re spectivestandards '23 and 2% of the canopy or top 25, the rear standards 26 and27 of the canopy being secured in socket brackets 28 and 29 arried bythe rear portions of the fenders 11. The rear portions of the fenders 11are secured to the differential housing by brace rods 30, one end ofwhich is E ll Hill

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connected to a fender 11 and the other end by the bracket may be securedto the differto a bracket 31 by fastening devices 32 and ential housingby the bolts which connect 33, the bracket being fastened to the boltsthe housing members together. 34 on the housing. The brace rods also 2.In combination, a fender having a colearry additional brace rods 35which are lar for securing it to the axle housing of a fastened to themand to the fender, as best tractor, a bracket carried by the front endof seen in Fig. I. the fender and having jaws for engagt nient When itis desired to remove the fenders, with the dash iron of the tractor, abrace and the nuts 21 can be unscrewed from their supporting rodconnected to the rear end bolts so that the jaws embracing the flange ofthe fender, and a bracket reniovably se 5 can be disengaged from thedash iron and cured to the other end of the brace and sup the nuts 32and 33 may be unscrewed from porting rod, said bracket having openingstheir bolts so that the rod 30 may be de spaced apart to correspond tothe spaced re- 5 tached from the brackets 31, thus permitting lation ofthe fastening devices which connect the entire fender and canopy to beremoved the differential housing members of the tracwithout taking offthe nuts or bolts of the tor together. dilferential gearing and withoutmarring the 3. A bracket for supporting the front end machine. of afender to a motor driven vehicle, said 450 From the foregoingdescription it will be bracket comprising a body portion providedapparent that the fenders may be convenwith a vertical intermediateportion, a horiiently and expeditiously attached to a type of zontalfender-engaging lip or flange at one machine in which no fenders havebeen proend of the vertical portion, a canopy stake-- vided and this canbe accomplished without, receiving socket carried by the vertical por-H5 in any Way, marring or altering the contion, and clamping jaws at theother end of struction of the machine as it was sent from the bracket.the factory and that the fenders and canopy 4. A fender supportingbracket compriscan be convenlently removed when the oceaing a bodyportion having at its lower end ash iron-engaging jaws, a laterallyproject- 7 What we claim and desire to secure by ing fender-engaging lipat the other end of Letters-Patent 1s the body portion, and acanopy-stake-rcceiv- 1. In comblnation with a fender, a bracket ingmember carried by the body portion adsecured to the front end of thefender and jacent to the lip. provided With clamping jaWS having ppo- 5.A bracket for supporting fenders comsitely disposed grooves to engage aperiphprising a. body portion having clamping eral flange on a dash ironof a tractor, a jaws at one end and a fender-engaging porbrace andsupporting rod connected to the tion at the other end, and a canopystakeother end of the fender, and a removable receiving socket adjacentthereto. bracket fastened to the freeend of the brace In testimonywhereof we and supporting rod, said bracket having a tures. portionprovided with openings spaced apart to correspond to the distances thebolts of CHARLES W. MOTTS. the differential housing are spaced where-HARVEY H. LEWIS.

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